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正在展出|第14届卡塞尔文献展:R·H·奎特曼的绘画

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RH·奎特曼 R. H. Quaytman  

第14届卡塞尔文献展 documenta 14

希腊雅典 Athens / 展期:2017.04.08-07.16

德国卡塞尔 Kassel / 展期:2017.06.10-09.17


 《帕提亚射击》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot, Chapter 31 (局部 detail), 2017;油彩、丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Oil, silkscreen ink, gesso on wood;62.9 x 62.9 cm.


抽象绘画在今天能为我们带来什么?它能够复兴现代主义者以解放为目标的雄心壮志,或是在新语境下实现其激进的潜能吗?它能够使抽象艺术中的“盲点”(blind spots)得以显现,或脱离于那些由意识形态所引发、阻碍了其自身革命性使命的局限性吗?再者,它能够通过揭露自身历史中的悖论,在当代自反性的临界状态中占有一席之地吗?



 《帕提亚射击》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot, Chapter 31, 2017;油彩、丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Oil, silkscreen ink, gesso on wood;62.9 x 62.9 cm.


 第14届卡塞尔文献展展览现场,希腊雅典贝纳基博物馆。展期:2017.04.08–07.16。Installation view, documenta 14, Benaki Museum-Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 2017.04.08-7.16. 摄影 / Photo: Stathis Mamalakis. 


1961年出生于美国波士顿的艺术家R·H·奎特曼(R. H. Quaytman),便以不同机构和文化背景中反复出现的基本原则为框架,提出了上述问题。自2001年起,奎特曼开始创作完全遵照于黄金比例的绘画,并制作了十个不同大小但构图极度缜密、有着坡口边石膏底面胶合板作品,上面是相互叠加的手绘图像、以照片为基础的丝网印刷画和其他图案。她的作品全貌有如一本经过了精心构设的书籍,包含了为不同展览场地所特别构建的彼此相扣的“章节”,并通常以装置的形式呈现。各个章节中的特定元素,会在下一个章节里继续出现,成为构成总体叙事所必不可少的线索。


 《帕提亚射击(亚马逊人与斯基泰人)》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot (Amazons and Scythians), Chapter 31, 2017;油彩、丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Oil, silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;62.9 x 101.6 cm.


 第14届卡塞尔文献展展览现场,希腊雅典贝纳基博物馆。展期:2017.04.08–07.16。Installation view, documenta 14, Benaki Museum-Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 2017.04.08-7.16. 摄影 / Photo: Stathis Mamalakis. 


在这一系统化的方式中,重复和复制似乎为构建新的整体提供了一种潜在的可能性。与此同时,每一幅绘画本身也成为了一种独特的“表达”和一个不可重复的“事件”。在此之中,奎特曼借由抽象绘画的语言,展开了两种行动——一段被重申的历史和一种具有独创性的言语活动。奎特曼对这段自二十世纪之初兴起的绘画历史碎片进行了转化,并使之与不断发展下的现代性构成并置比较;借由当代材料和大规模复制技术,以及存在于对当下的想象与具体化中的局限性,奎特曼推动了两者间的相互渗透。

 

 《帕提亚射击(亚马逊人与斯基泰人)》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot (Amazons and Scythians), Chapter 31, 2017;丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;82.2 x 133 x 2.5 cm 与《帕提亚射击》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot, Chapter 31, 2017;丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;50.8 x 31.4 cm.


 第14届卡塞尔文献展展览现场,希腊雅典贝纳基博物馆。展期:2017.04.08–07.16。Installation view, documenta 14, Benaki Museum-Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 2017.04.08-7.16. 摄影 / Photo: Stathis Mamalakis. 


本届卡塞尔文献展上,奎特曼将展出《הקק第29章,第二部分》(הקק, Chapter 29, Part 2),作品灵感源自于保罗·克利(Paul Klee)的名作《新天使》(Angelus Novus,1920)。在此前的“第一部分”(Part 1, 2015)中,奎特曼以一张独版画(monoprint)为基底,探索了哲学家瓦尔特·本雅明和格尔肖姆·肖勒姆之间的友谊,同时也审视了唯物主义与现代性症结中的神秘主义之间的棘手关系。本次展出的版本,起源于艺术家的一个发现:保罗·克利的“天使”,实际上覆盖于一张大卢卡·克拉纳赫(Lucas Cranach the Elder)创作的马丁·路德(Martin Luther)肖像画的19世纪复制品上。在雅典奎特曼的绘画不但与这里关于亚马逊人、波斯人、巨人一族和尔斐神谕的神话传说相互呼应,也为后续章节积累和演化出更多深意。如果说,绘画在今天依旧具备创造出一种社会想象的力量,那么奎特曼的实践则提醒着我们:其最为首要的任务,便是在这个处于不断发展之中的现实下,继续传递抽象绘画的异质性。


 《帕提亚射击(亚当·希姆奇克)》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot (Adam Szymczyk), Chapter 31, 2017;丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;82.2 x 50.8 cm.


What can abstract painting do today? Can it revive modernism’s emancipatory aspirations or materialize its radical potential in new contexts? Can it make evident abstraction’s “blind spots” or the ideologically inspired limitations that arguably thwarted its own revolutionary mission? Can it lay claim to contemporary self-reflexive criticality by disclosing the paradoxes embedded in its own histories?


 第14届卡塞尔文献展展览现场,希腊雅典贝纳基博物馆。展期:2017.04.08–07.16。Installation view, documenta 14, Benaki Museum-Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 2017.04.08-7.16. 摄影 / Photo: Stathis Mamalakis. 


 《帕提亚射击(德尔斐)》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot (Delphi), Chapter 31, 2017;油彩、达玛清漆、丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Oil, damar varnish, silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;50.8 x 82.2 cm.


R. H. Quaytman, born in Boston in 1961, poses these questions in a practice framed by a recurrent set of ground rules performed in different institutional and cultural settings. Since 2001, the artist has been making paintings whose proportions follow the golden ratio and come in ten sizes of nesting proportions, plywood panels with beveled edges and a gesso ground, layered with hand-painted images, photograph-based silk screens, or patterns. The oeuvre is configured like a book, with evolving “chapters” that are specifically conceived for each exhibition site and often take the form of installations. Certain elements from each chapter migrate to the next, connecting threads between narratives. 


 《帕提亚射击》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot, Chapter 31, 2017;丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;133 x 82.2 x 2.5 cm.


In this systematic grammar, repetition and reproduction appear as the conditions of possibility for a new constellation, while at the same time, each painting is situated as both a singular “phrase” and an unrepeatable “event.” Quaytman performs a double operation—a reiterated history and an original speech act—upon the language of painterly abstraction. Shifting through fragments of a history of painting that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century to contest a modernity in the making, Quaytman also filters this through contemporary materials and techniques of mass reproducibility, and current constraints of vision and embodiment. 



 《帕提亚射击》, 第31章节 Parthian Shot, Chapter 31 (局部 detail), 2017;丝印油墨、石膏底料、木板 Silkscreen ink and gesso on wood;133 x 82.2 x 2.5 cm.


 第14届卡塞尔文献展展览现场,希腊雅典贝纳基博物馆。展期:2017.04.08–07.16。Installation view, documenta 14, Benaki Museum-Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 2017.04.08-7.16. 摄影 / Photo: Stathis Mamalakis. 


In Kassel, Quaytman presents הקק, Chapter 29, Part 2, which grew out of her fascination with Paul Klee’s famous Angelus Novus (1920). Previously, in Part 1 (2015), the monoprint was the basis for the artist to explore the friendship between philosophers Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, and the vexed relationship between materialism and mysticism at the crux of modernism. The current iteration emerged on discovering that Klee’s Angel was mounted on top of a nineteenth-century reproduction of a portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder. In Athens, Quaytman’s paintings relate to the myths of the Amazons, Persians, and Giants, as well as the Oracle of Delphi, bound to permutate and accumulate meaning in future chapters. Indeed, if painting still has power to create a social imaginary, then Quaytman’s practice suggests that its primary task is to continue propagating abstraction’s heterogeneity in a still-unfolding actuality.


文:纽特·巴那

Text: Nuit Bana




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